Some years ago I worked in an empoyment agency. We would call people asking them to interview for $10/hour jobs.
The most common response was “Why would I want to do that when I’m making almost that much staying home and collecting unemployment?”
And let me assure you that a LARGE number of them are working “under the table”, double-dipping, as bartenders, waitresses, painters, landscapers, movers, etc.
They don’t even think there’s anything wrong with it. And we don’t enforce it.
...and on top of that, now they’re getting foodstamps, welfare, free health care, rent subsidies, heat subsidies, free college, and a free Obama smartphone.
Is it any wonder that our country is broke?